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Positive acceleration could be called "speeding up" if you felt like it.
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Can there be a positive acceleration and a negative acceleration?
Yes, acceleration can be positive and negative because acceleration is a vector. It has both direction and magnitude. The direction is what makes it positive or negative. Negative acceleration is usually called deceleration.
An increase of speed during a given interval of time is called?
The shift of velocity per unit of given time is called acceleration. The types of acceleration are negative acceleration and positive acceleration.
What is positive negative and zero acceleration is?
positive acceleration is when things speed up; negative acceleration is when things slow down; and zero acceleration is when things do not speed up or slow down, this is called constant speed, or no change in velocity.
What has to happen to a car's acceleration and velocity for a car's speed to increase and have a positive acceleration?
The velocity has to increase in a positive direction. The increase in velocity in a positive direction is a positive acceleration.
What is called negative accelarration?
Deceleration. Negative acceleration = Velocity is decreasing by time. Positive acceleration = Velocity is increasing by time. Zero acceleration = Velocity is the same by time.
What is positive and negative acceleration?
Positive acceleration = speeding up. Negative acceleration = slowing down.
What is meant by de-acceleration?
de acceleration just means slowing down. Acceleration means speeding up. Actually any change in speed is considered to be acceleration. Slowing down is called negative acceleration or (de-acceration) and speeding up is called positive excelleration.
Is it true that An increase of speed during a given interval of time is called negative acceleration.?
It may or may not be true: it depends on the direction in which the acceleration is being measured.
What is positive accelerations?
Positive Acceleration refers to the force acting on an object whose speed increases as it moves away from its original starting position. If the velocity is increasing along with time it is called positive acceleration, and if the velocity decreases it is negative acceleration.
Is increasing acceleration the same as positive acceleration?
No. "Positive acceleration" means increasing speed. The acceleration is usually constantin typical Physics examples and applications.
What is positive acceleration negative acceleration?
Positive is speeding up and negative is slowing down
How is a negative acceleration different from a positive acceleration?
Actually, it depends on how you define the coordinate axes, but usually when moving forward, negative acceleration decreasesspeed, positive acceleration increasesit.
